Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko combine extensive research experience (including years of research in such areas as radio astronomy, solar eclipses, supernovae, active galaxies, black holes and cosmology), teaching experience, and textbook-writing experience to offer a book that presents contemporary science in a way that students can understand. This brief and illustrated text, offers concise coverage of a wide range of astronomical topics. An early discussion of the scientific method stresses its importance in the verification of observations. The authors emphasize the study of origins in this text, first by singling out specifics in the headings of each chapter and then by dealing with a variety of relevant material in the text itself. This edition includes a chapter on the dozens of exoplanets that are being discovered around other stars.
| ISBN | 053439549X | | Pages | 432 | | ISBN13 | 9780534395490
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 1084 | | Imprint | Brooks/Cole | | Published in | CA | | Format | Multimedia Item | | Previous ISBN | 9780030052187 | | Publication date | 28 May 2003 | | Height (mm) | 276 | | Non-book description | Pbk & CD-ROM | | Width (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | QB43.3.P37 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 520 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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A grand tour of the heavens; light, matter and energy - powering the universe; light and telescopes - extending our senses; observing the stars and planets - clockwork of the universe; gravity and motion the early history of astronomy; the terrestrial planets - earth, moon, and their relatives; the Jovian planets - windswept giants; Pluto, comets, and space debris; our solar system and others; our star -the sun; stars - distant suns; how stars shine - cosmic furnaces; the death of stars - stellar recycling; black holes - the end of space and time; the Milky Way - our home in the universe; a universe of galaxies; quasars and active galaxies; cosmology - the birth and life of the cosmos; in the beginning; life in the universe.
"I like the idea of having a short book which allows the students to focus on the key ideas. I like very much [the authors'] efforts to debunk pseudo-science and distinguish such nonsense from real science." "The authors have done a good job in covering the emerging areas of astronomy." "The way that your authors integrate the physics concepts into the book is appropriate for this course. For example, I like the way they introduced general relativity by relating it to solar studies. These are difficult concepts but they were presented in such a way that they should not overwhelm the students."
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